How to auto-share calendars to new staff members?

[jrotenstein]

Background
We have multiple calendars shared to all staff, via a share to a group that contains all staff members, similar to "everybody@ourcompany.com".

We have a 'fake' account that contains calendars shared to all staff, and we also have several 'resource' accounts that share their calendars to all staff for room bookings.

The Problem
Whenever a new staff member joins the company, they are added to the 'everybody@ourcompany.com' group. This means they inherit permissions to access the shared calendars.

However, they do not have the e-mail that activates the share and makes the calendar appear on their UI. As a result, we need to manually go into every calendar and share the calendar specifically with them, so that the e-mail is generated. We then 'revoke' the permission without sending an e-mail, so as not to make the Sharing list overly big (they keep access permissions via the 'everybody' permission grant).

This is a big process to go through for every new staff member.

The Question
Is there an easier way to give new staff members access to shared calendars in their UI?

Thanks!

[mmorse]

Themselves: Give them the URL instead (so your not making these new invites).

Server side: Zmmailbox - ZimbraWiki
Something like-
zmmailbox -z -m user@domain.com createMountpoint --view appointment -F # folder theshare@domain.com folder
OR
zmmailbox -a admin -p password -m user@domain.com createMountpoint --view appointment /theshare@domain.com /sharedFolder #
OR
zmmailbox
mbox>adminAuthenticate -u https://server.domain.com:7071 admin@domain.com password
mbox user@domain.com>createMountpoint --view appointment -F # folder theshare@domain.com folder

This is what you really want:
Bug 7473 - Share management and discovery
Don't forget to vote!

[jrotenstein]

Ah! The best success was gained with:

zmmailbox -a admin -p password -m mailboxowner@domain.com createMountpoint --view appointment "/Meeting Room Calendar" meetingroom@domain.com /Calendar

That caused the Meeting Room Calendar to appear in the user's Calendar screen.

Less important, but... when the share was deleted in the UI, the mountpoint remained. How can the mountpoint be deleted?

Thank you!

[mmorse]

(same kinda syntax) deleteFolder

Note: You can't delete the main cal/addressbook/notebook (-ie those with capital Calendar, Notebook, etc)

[padraig]

This looks interesting is it possible to share an Address Book in the same way?
if so i would appreciate the zmcommands

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by padraig

This looks interesting is it possible to share an Address Book in the same way?
if so i would appreciate the zmcommands

Details of how to create a mount point are in the wiki.

[mmorse]

Currently you have to specify the folder --view type (appointment, message, notebook, etc)

-eventually the --view will be optional and it'll auto-detect the type